“It took ten drafts, four years, and my editor twice talking me out of quitting because the work of quarrying and querying one’s interior self carries enormous emotional cost and risk.” @putsata in our #NewNonfiction2022 feature from the Sept/Oct issue out now! See the TOC in the link in bio. Image description: On left, photo of Putsata Reang with gray hair just below shoulders in a dark blue blazer with arms crossed. On right, the book cover for Ma and Me: A Memoir with a yellow background and an illustration of a crocodile with a tear from its eye and a tiger upside down with a tear from its eye. . . . #Putsata Reang #Memoir #NewNonfiction #Writing #WritingProcess #Publishing #Inspiration #PoetsAndWriters #Magazine #SeptemberOctoberIssue